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Earl GreyGory (he/him)

@earlgreygory.bsky.social

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Illustrator, gardener and painter of insect death portraits. http://www.snaderillustrator.com

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · May 9

My art is now available as originals and prints! Check out my store.

www.snaderillustrator.com/blog/shop

A gouache painting of a dead variegated fritillary butterfly, with tattered wings on a deep purple background. The butterfly has orange, white and light brown wings with 4 prominent dark spots.

A finished gouache painting of a dead spotted lanternfly. The background is a slate blue color. The lanternfly is black, white, gray, vermillion and pale yellow. The lanternfly is lying with wings spread out and long, narrow legs, outstretched. Dramatic, semi-transparent shadows extend away from the subject.

A gouache painting. The subject is a squashed yellow jacket. Colors of yellow, brown black and gold have been applied on a terra-cotta background. The subject is lying on its back. Wispy gray shadows extend away from the subject.

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 2d

Hey it's October, QRP with you pumpkin art! #artshare #arttrain

Drawing. Two men look at a large pumpkin, which has crushed a third man.

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 2d

What a character!

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 2d

This piece is my biggest crowd scene yet! I hope you aren't reading this on your phone while crossing the starting line of a monster drag race!

#illustration #comicart #halloween #monsters #cartoon

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 3d

The weather is nice and the skippers are making hay while the sun shines! I've enjoyed their presence amongst my zinnias.

#bugsky #gardening #bloomscrolling #uplift #positive

A photograph of a skipper butterfly on a striped zinnia flower.

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Haley Grunloh @haleygrunloh.bsky.social · 18d

He's come out of the swamp to deliver the Prophecy #sketchbook

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, lovely!

Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 4d

Here I am, painting wings. Some days I feel like painting is easy to do, other days there's more friction. This was a friction-sort of morning.

#sciart #bugsky #traditionalart #wip

A partial gouache painting of a katydid. Green has been applied to a magenta background. Very light green has been used for the wings.

Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 5d

This plucky mushroom popped up in my sweet woodruff. What can I say, I was charmed!

#mushrooms #bloomscrolling #gardening #nature

Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 6d

From the time I found this katydid, I couldn't wait to get some paint with green!

#bugsky #green #sciart #colors

A partial gouache painting of a katydid. Green has been applied to a magenta background.

A detail of a partial gouache painting of a katydid. Green has been applied to a magenta background.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 7d

Dripping Mushroom, a 1916 woodcut by the Dutch graphic artist and painter Julie de Graag.

One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/dripping-mushroom/

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 7d

Everything reminds me of her

Image is several gourds and smaller pumpkins painted and arranged around a larger pumpkin covered in bumps and carved so it looks like a cycloptic grinning fanged head with gourd snakes emerging for hair

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Colpizen @colpizen.bsky.social · 7d

WIP
Mantis religiosa
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Reprise sous Affinity de l'illustration scannée de mante religieuse pour insektober, encre de Chine et dorée sur coton brut.

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 8d

I like this one, simple but moody!

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Rachel Ignotofsky @rachelignotofsky.bsky.social · 8d

Fish with legs! During the Devonian period, transitional species that began to crawl out of the oceans and visit the shores. Which one is your fave?

Art from my book DINOSAURS 🦕📚 get your copy here for Oct 14:

rachelignotofskydesign.com/dinosaurs

#sciart #fossiladdict #evolution #paleoart

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 9d

Day 3 of #Inktober, “crown” for a kinglet. #SciArt #ink #penandink

A ballpoint pen drawing of a puffed-up ruby-crowned kinglet, wearing a crown with sparkling rubies in it.

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 9d

I touched up the pencil underdrawing drawing of the kaydid and enjoyed the shine of the lines. Check out this close up!

#bugsky #sciart #closeup #video

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NothingHappenedToday (Ed Harrington) @edharrington.bsky.social · 10d

Cute pufferfish detail from a larger illustration. 🐡
#PenAndInk #Drawing #FountainPen #Pufferfish #SciArt

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 10d

BOOM, this time I picked a very bold color. I am very excited to set the green of the katydid against this.

#sciart #bugsky #bold #color

An unfinished gouache painting of a katydid with a deep magenta background.

Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 11d

Yo it's #October! I was thinking about skeletons and this character showed up in my #sketchbook!

#penandink #skeleton #goodtime #drawing #coldone #halloween

A pen and ink drawing of a skeleton holding a beer.

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Oni @onidraws.bsky.social · 12d

It's my birthday 🥳🎊✨!!

I guess I can show my art and ask it to be shared (if you want to of course)!

Picture of a dragonair floating in the air with its head bent toward the ground. There's a gold halo behind the head, some stylized gold clouds and Chinese decoration in the background, as well as stars.

Painting of a red borzoi dog. It looks ominous and scary, its half of the body is unraveling into red stripes and glitch effects can be seen in the whole picture.

Painting of the light dragon from Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. It has a star in its mouth and it's brightly colored in green, yellow and blue.

Painting of a bust of a purple tiger on a yellow backgroung, crying dark ink with ink dripping from its stripes and its jaw. Inkcaps mushrooms are on its body and some stripes are flowing through the drawing space. There are also purple clovers with ink dripping from them as well.

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 12d

Many Happy Returns!

Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 12d

New insect reveal. This time I found a katydid! Sadly flattened, but not forgotten.

#bugs #insects #bugsky #sciart #drawing

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 13d

Work on the graveyard crowd scene continues. Has anyone heard of the urban legend about a chair-shaped grave where you can sit and be grabbed by something? It was floating around in my head when I drew this.
#wip #graveyard #ghosts #crowds #comicart

A pen and ink drawing in progress. Ghosts abound. Some fly and one grabs a man in a chair.

Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 14d

Today is my birthday, and I'm over the hill! Or maybe I am at the top of the hill today, is that how it works? At any rate, here is some art to share!

Gouache painting of a bumblebee with tongue extended. Fuzzy yellow orange and sage green colors on a teal background. Black and brown colors have been added to define the face, wings, legs and body. Wispy shadows extend away from the subject.

A gouache painting of a crushed red beetle on a warm golden background. Colors of burgundy, white, black, tan and light purple.

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 16d

Love the colors!

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